Investigation, he noted a pattern in this dreams. During their sessions, they would describe to him horrific nightmares. His interest in dreams during his practice with mental patients. Besides this, he also noted that many dreams people recounted had an ethical angle to them.Ĭonsequently, he concluded there was no way dreaming could be that simplistic. In fact, the mind would sometimes block out all sensory stimuli. Noted that the theory of physical excitation did not always hold. For instance, he wondered why a dream did not simply recount the event of the day in a simple manner as they had occurred. However, he was not wholly convinced about this theory of excitation of the senses. This was done in an effort to keep the individual from waking up. In other words, it was a way for the sleeping mind to deal with the real world.

That dreams originated from excitation of the senses. He also notes that recent scientific theory of his time indicated Initially, early man believed that dreams were some sort of divine message form the gods. Over the issue for more than a thousand years had not yielded much. However, he noted that the interest in dreams Indeed, there were many theories that had been written on the subject. Thus, he proposes that one way of gaining insights into a person's desires is through an analysis of their dreams, no matter how far-fetched they are.įreud began his work by exploring past literature which had been written on this subject of the dream world. Of dreams, when carefully examined will reveal their meaning. He continues to explain that even the most distorted He suggests that most dreams are a sort of way for the unconscious mind to express its desires. He suggests that dreams have their own language and thus need to be interpreted. In the work, Freud differentiates between dreams that are at the surface and unconscious level dreams.

He uses a self-analysis of his own dreams in order to prove the theory he puts forward about how dream psychology works. He goes so far as to classify the different types of dreams. In the works, Freud postulates that dreams are a way through which the mind tries to stay awake after the person The subject of relentless criticism, there is no denying the influence he had on much of the twentieth century. Although his theory on dreams, presented extensively in this work has been

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, 1921Ĭonsidered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud wrote the book The Interpretation of Dreams towards the end of the nineteenth century.

Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood, 1910.

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, 1905.

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, 1905.

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, 1901.

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